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The Black Man and his Visa [electronic resource] / Jean Tardif Lonkog

Author:
Lonkog, Jean Tardif
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Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG ; [Oxford, Eng.] : Distributed inside and outside N. America by African Books Collection, c2013 (Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, 2013) (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource (1 electronic text (iv, 96 p.) :) digital file
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Tardif is the son of a medical practitioner, an herbalist and a spiritual healer in northwestern Cameroun. When his father eventually gives up his practice, his mother struggles to put him and four of his sisters through high school. But financing university is a challenge. Tardif works for seven years in the farms and as a school teacher and seeks help from all quarters of the globe to try to raise money for university in his home country. Then one day he finds himself in China - studying Chinese medicine - and hoping for a better life than the one he had in Cameroon. The predicaments are as challenging as they are profoundly instructive. Tardif poses as a Dutchman and as an American to get jobs teaching English and survive in his host country. He ends up earning the respect of his students and employers, but not without everyday encounters with precarity. Just as one problem is resolved, another always seems to be brewing on the horizon. Tardif autobiographically opens his adventures, his transformations and his musings on Chinese and African ways of thinking and living to those interested in intercultural mobility and learning about life. His story reads like a dairy and keeps one wondering what will happen next.
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9789956790173
9789956728671 (print)
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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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